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• On This Day in 1951, the Lonely Hearts Killers pay the price.

  

  8 March 1951 was an historic day at Sing Sing Prison. The death house had six pre-execution cells nicknamed the ‘Dance Hall.’ At 11:30am four were occupied by John King, Richard Powers, Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. By 11:30pm those cells were empty. Their occupants were all dead in New York’s last quadruple execution. King…

  CrimeScribe

  March 8, 2021

  History, True Crime

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